notes on Revolutionary Psychology

"Learned helplessness is a mental state in which an organism forced to endure aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are escapable, presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation"---seems political political apathy

"In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is people's tendency to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation, rather than considering external factors"

what I call Liberalism

"Ross argued in a popular paper that the fundamental attribution error forms the conceptual bedrock for the field of social psychology. "

Locus_of_control ties to agency vs structure debtes in sociology

on agency vs. structure - we do not have unlimited free choice as Sartre seems to think yet we're not robots in a deterministic fashion total acceptance of either since is incorrect we make choices strongly influenced by structures